A rocket design workbench for FreeCAD
The Rocket Workbench is available as part of the Addon Manager. See https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Std_AddonMgr
Expand for Manual install instructions
- Obtain your user's default FreeCAD folder by typing the following in to the FreeCAD Python console
FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData") - Open a shell terminal
- Switch to folder in step 1 and append the
Mod/subfolder ex:cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod - Type
git clone https://github.com/davesrocketshop/Rocket
The Rocket workbench will automagically download to your local machine.
- Restart FreeCAD for changes to take place.
- Rocket WB should now be available in the workbench dropdown menu.
Note: In order to keep Rocket WB up-to-date you'll need to follow Steps 2 and 3. But for step 4 replace with git pull
Again, restart FC to use the latest changes.
This workbench has been written with multiple language support. If you are willing to provide a translation to your native language please open an issue and we'll work to get that done.
For any feedback, bugs, features, and discussion please refer to the Rocketry workbench FreeCAD forum thread.
David Carter AKA @davesrocketshop
Component database originally taken from the Open Rocket project (https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket)
Now using the improved and curated parts database by Dave Cook instead (https://github.com/dbcook/openrocket-database)
Portions of the pyatmos module by Chunxiao Li are included with this software (https://github.com/lcx366/ATMOS)
LGPLv2.1 (see LICENSE)